fun facts coming at you from the backseat...

SO I'm posting again just so that I can share with you all the adventure that was this weekend as well as have a blog that is just about Melbourne where I'm going this afternoon. This weekend was actually unbelievable. I must have said "this is not real life" and "we are going to get murdered like in a horror movie" at least 10 times and meant it.

The story begins with this guy. Mostly because it was his birthday that we were going to. I was informed that it was 6 hours away from here. BIG lie. Regardless of how far away it actually was, Happy 21st Knighty, and thanks for giving us the opportunity for such an adventure.

21.

Vince and I are in Sydney staying with his brother Fred. Vince and I needed to be back at Macquarie at 10am to get a ride to the birthday party. Now Vince has a parking spot in another apartment complex across the street. He was supposed to park in spot 765, but when he got there someone was parked in his spot so he just parked in a random empty space. Saturday morning we went to get in his car and head to Macquarie but the car whose spot he parked in took it upon themselves to teach him a lesson and parked him in so he couldn't get his car out. So we obviously couldn't go anywhere. We had to go get the security guard who said it would take some time to find all the car owners and get them to move. It ended up taking a really long time and we had breakfast in the meantime. They still hadn't called when we finished breakfast so we went back to Fred's to wait. The boys we were supposed to drive with had already left so we called other people and were planning to go with them and leave at 1pm. The guy still hadn't called so we decided to get our stuff out of the car and just take a taxi. When we got to the parking garage to get our stuff the cars were all relocated and Vince's car was free. So frustrating since the security guard said that the car was still blocked in. Struggles.

We get to Macquarie and meet up with Cain and Sam who are driving us down to the party. We were aware that there was some flooding where we were going but everyone else had managed to make it so we figured we would be fine. The drive itself at the beginning was pretty uneventful...except for the fact that it was way longer than 6 hours. We called to make sure we were going the right way and Knighty's mom told us to call her when we got to one part of the road because it was flooded over and she would drive in front of us since their were huge pot holes. Cain told her that we had pretty good drivers and we would only call if we hit trouble. It was getting dark and we were in the middle of the country/middle of nowhere. We drove through the first set of water and it was really scary, pretty deep and just a frightening experience. The check engine light came on every time we went through water but eventually it would turn off. When we got to the water that Knighty's mom had warned us about Cain and Sam got out of the car and walked through the water to check how deep it was and where the pot holes were. They decided the best way to make it through was if Cain drove the car and Vince, Sam and I stood in the water marking off the pot holes. So basically we were all knee deep in water, being attacked by mozzies and being used as traffic cones. I will be nicer to traffic cones from now on since their jobs terrifying. This is a photo of Cain's car driving through the next day. The water had gone down a lot, but it still came up over his lights. The drive was only so scary because it was dark and we couldn't see anything. Plus when Vince and I were waiting for them to walk the water we heard something swimming in it...it was like a horror movie.

its a lot less scary in daylight...

We had to go through about 4 more of these types of water covered roads and everyone was just as terrifying as the next. Especially when we were speeding along and one appeared out of nowhere. Sam and Cain got out and walked through most of them just to make sure Alfie (the car) would make it through. We took a wrong turn when we were close to the house and had to call Knighty and have him come out and meet us. We finalllllly made it to the house at about 10pm making it a very stressful 9 hour drive.

We put our stuff in the dodgy house we would be sleeping in, got changed and went to the party. Apparently the party was a cocktail themed event which Vince and I didn't know so we didn't dress up for the occasion. Plus when I was putting on my pants I broke the zipper so I had to walk around looking like an idiot all night. RIP fave party pants. The first drink I had at the party I spilled on myself...so shirt and pants were a fail.

Me and my roadtrip pal Sam

 Things got rowdy when we started playing that stupid game where you hit the top of someones full beer with the bottom of your bottle and it explodes everywhere. I am a sneaky expert at this game but other people struggle. Cam tried to do it and smashed the bottle on the ground. I bent down to pick up the bigger chunks of glass and so did he. Now he claims his other drink cup spilled on me but I swear he spit it out onto my hand. So here I am cleaning up his mess and he spits up on me like a baby. So rude. Everyone was laughing about it and he was not pleased. Later in the night I made a joke about it and he threw a beer in my face. My eyes were wide open and it got all up in there. Luckily for me Knighty's mom Sally is a saint and she took me inside and gave me eye drops and took excellent care of me. My eyes were burning so bad for so long. That's what I get for teasing drunk boys I suppose.

When we first got there I was sprayed with bug spray but based on how itchy I am today it wasn't very effective. I have huge mozzie bites all over my legs, back and arms. So unfortunate. But I will say this, the mozzies might be bad...but the stars in the country were INCREDIBLE. I could not get over how amazing they were. You could see so many and I saw a bunch of constellations and a few shooting stars....hopefully that luck helps me out in the future.

We slept on mattresses in a big room in this dodgy house. When we woke up in the morning we showered before we went to eat breakfast. I showered in the most questionable shower that didn't have a door or curtain and no hot water. FUN. We ate breakfast and played with the CUTEST puppies ever and then we decided to hit the road. Vince and I rode home with Cam and Brad instead this time and I had a bit more room in the car so I wasn't as uncomfortable. At one point we encountered a herd of cows that was all up in the road.

moooo-ve cow!

This guy just casually strolled in front of us like it was no big deal. Other than the cows we didn't really have any other struggles. The ride was like 8 hours long and other than a minor delay in taking a wrong turn we made it home pretty easily. It was a chaotic trip and a lot went wrong but it was still an amazing time and the countryside  of Australia was beautiful.

I'm in the airport headed to Melbourne now and I'm really looking forward to it for lots of reasons! SO excited. Missing everyone at home! XO

countryside